The Canadian Common Ground Alliance (CCGA) has grown from humble beginnings into a national force for underground infrastructure safety. As someone who lived through its earliest days, I can say with pride that the CCGA's journey is one of collaboration, persistence, and unwavering dedication to damage prevention and public safety...

Grab your sunscreen, dust off your clubs, and get ready for a day of fun! We are just six weeks away from USP’s first-ever Charity Golf Tournament. On September 9, 2025, join Utility Safety Partners staff, members, and partners at The Hamptons Golf Club in Calgary...
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Mired in the sticky heat of July, we’ve entered the Eye of the Storm if you will; a frantic swirl of activity occurring around us, but a relative calm in our immediate vicinity. It’s hard to settle into at the outset; after the full-sprint of May and June, July’s comparative tranquility can be a bit jarring, to put it mildly. Agents have time to read! To relax! To breathe and just have some time to themselves! It truly is something, and remembering those sweet times from my stint on the frontline as a young man, I’m filled with vicarious joy that the Contact Centre gets a reprieve after pouring all their efforts into a very successful May and June!

At USP, we know that damage prevention works best when everyone plays a role. You don’t need to own infrastructure to contribute. Your knowledge, experience, and commitment to safety are just as important. That’s why we invite professionals, associations, and organizations from numerous sectors to join us as Safety Partners...

Canadian Association of Pipeline and Utility Locating Contractors (CAPULC), with support from Jiva Consulting is leading an Industry Workforce Partnership Project for the Underground Facility Locating – Career Awareness and Recruiting Campaign. This initiative addresses the urgent need to attract and retain skilled Underground Facility Locators in Alberta’s construction sector – a profession that is essential to public safety and infrastructure development but remains largely unrecognized as a formal career path...

Over the years, you may have noticed many changes in our software. Utility Safety Partners is committed to making the locate process as user-friendly as possible. In the past 20 years, we have changed software providers multiple times, each change has come with its own challenges and perks, with the ultimate goal of gathering as much information as possible for the responding utility companies, while still making it easy for the excavator to use the service...

How do you build a future beneath the waves—one acrylic sphere at a time?
That’s just one of the questions that surfaces in episode 72 of the Safety Moment Podcast, titled “Submerged Stories and Surface Truths.” Host Mike Sullivan reconnects with his old high school friend, Charles “Chuck” Kohnen, the co-founder and CEO of SEAmagine, to explore how an artistic kid from a Quebec dairy farm became one of the world’s foremost innovators in human-occupied submersibles...